Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "three-piece suite".
I saw a pool-table, a polythene-wrapped three-piece suite, various devotional ornaments and gewgaws with their special pale glow.
Open nightly to any resident from eight till ten on weekdays, and from teatime onwards, Saturday and Sunday: as formal as a ducal drawing room, with its matching three-piece suite and antimacassars (made by the proprietress herself), its mahogany standard lamp with tasselled shade, its row of grinning Toby jugs, precisely lined above its freezing hearth.
By the simple expedient of consuming a tiny portion of a decomposing three-piece suite, Lister had been anointed King of the Cockroaches.
A door stood open to a living room, polished wood block floor, a three-piece suite in black leather, oriental rugs scattered here and there.
The bay windowed front room contained only a three-piece suite in brown leather cloth.
Pooley stroked his trouser region gingerly, the old three-piece suite was smarting like a good un.
Facing it was a worn-out brown velour three-piece suite of furniture.
Pictures of party leaders on the wall, a small TV set, patterned carpet which clashed with the flowered curtains, a solid, plain three-piece suite, a square-edged, dark dining-table, the flimsy chairs of which were covered with the material from the curtains.